Let Us Run With Patience the Race That is Set Before Us

Author: smallerfishthoughts

We can talk at length, and I’m sure we will, about Donald Trump and the legacy of his victory. But this isn’t really about Trump or how we should or shouldn’t react to his presidency. This is about the role white Americans who voted against Trump played in the election last Tuesday. More specifically, it’s… Continue reading Dear White Liberals, Trump is On Us

There are a lot of people I know and love, mostly white, who have been very frustrated with the negative response of many Americans to the Trump presidency. Who have seen the response as melodramatic, self-pitying and unfair. And I won’t pretend that all of the responses to our new president-elect have been entirely rational… Continue reading To My Trump Supporting and Trump Ambivalent Friends

This is the piece that made me realize I really did need a place to write things, if only so I could have an excuse to think them through properly. Although this did not originally appear here, I’m putting it here both because it’s still how I’m thinking and because I enjoy documentation. I’m also never… Continue reading Five Things I Know to Be True in the Wake of the Election

I’m probably too tired to write at this moment in time, but that’s generally true so I might about well. I woke up this morning disapointed with the results of the American election, disapointed with what it said about my country and aware of my own failings as a citizen. What I most wanted was to write,… Continue reading Doing the Thing